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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.
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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
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One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.
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I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
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Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
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there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.
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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
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One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.
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The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
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A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
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Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.
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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
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Forget grammar and think about potatoes
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.
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